Fragmented evidence
Strategy, work, security, deployment, operations, and value live in systems with different owners and clocks.
Foundation v0.1.0 · Flight Ready
The Enterprise
Delivery Control Plane
From idea to impact. Governed by design.
TARMAC connects portfolio decisions, architecture, release evidence, production reality, automation, and compliance—without replacing the systems teams already use.
PROGRAM / DCM-042Evidence current
TriageArchitectureReleaseMonitoring
NEXT GOVERNED DECISIONProduction authorization
31 passed · 2 pending · 1 blocked
Security evidencePassed
Operational readinessPending
SEV2 root-cause actionBlocked
A Automation assembles evidence C Compliance retains the decision
The coordination gap
Delivery does not fail in one tool.
It fails between them.
Implicit governance
Required decisions arrive through institutional memory, manual checklists, and late escalation.
Reporting without action
Leaders receive lagging summaries instead of the precise decision that can still change an outcome.
The name is the model
Six capabilities.
One governed loop.
Triage
Turn demand and production feedback into an explainable portfolio decision.
Architecture
Turn intent into a sound, secure, reusable, and evidenced solution direction.
Release
Turn completed work into an explicit production decision with current evidence.
Monitoring
Turn service health and business outcomes into the next intervention.
Automation & CI/CD
Gather, evaluate, route, reconcile, and accelerate evidence across every pillar.
Compliance & Governance
Apply policy, decision rights, exceptions, retention, and audit across every pillar.
Interactive operating model
The delivery spine closes the loop.
Select a pillar to inspect its decision, evidence, and feedback contract.
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GOVERNED DECISION
Accept demand into portfolio assessment
Clarify intended outcome, sponsor authority, urgency, feasibility, initial risk, and baseline plan before significant delivery capacity is committed.
- Accountable
- ITPMO lead
- Evidence
- Outcome premise · sponsor · initial risk · baseline
- Feedback
- Reason, conditions, owner, and next review
AAutomation & CI/CDChecks completeness, calculates explainable priority, routes the decision, and starts the SLA.
CCompliance & GovernanceApplies intake policy, data classification, sponsor authority, and risk-tier requirements.
A modern ITPMO
From status collection
to decision enablement.
TRADITIONAL PATTERN
- Email and spreadsheet intake
- Late architecture meeting
- Manual release checklist
- Monthly status reconstruction
- Audit evidence scramble
TARMAC OPERATING MODEL
- Structured triage and decision SLA
- Versioned architecture evidence
- Connected readiness and blockers
- Live portfolio interventions
- Retained policy and decision history
TARMAC does not centralize every decision in the ITPMO. It gives the ITPMO a shared operating rhythm while architects, risk owners, release authorities, sponsors, and Finance retain accountability.
Enterprise architecture
A control plane—not another system of work.
Authoritative tools keep their native records. TARMAC governs the cross-system decisions.
Strategy & FinancePlanning & WorkSource · CI/CD · QualityITSM · Observability
CONTROL PLANETARMACTriage · Architecture · Release · MonitoringAutomation · Compliance · Evidence · Audit
Governed DecisionsPortfolio InterventionRelease ConfidenceRealized Value
Evidence with provenance
Every fact carries source, scope, time, freshness, and validation state.
Rules with reasons
Versioned policy returns findings, missing conditions, owners, and waiver state.
Decisions with accountability
Authorized people decide; TARMAC preserves authority, evidence, rationale, and history.
Transparent value model
Model opportunity.
Do not manufacture savings.
Every output below is a modeled scenario. It is not an observed result, approved business case, or guaranteed saving.
MODELED SCENARIO · NOT A GUARANTEE
Total modeled value$234,000capacity + delay + risk reduction
Capacity released1,000 hours$61,750 modeled value
Cost-of-delay reduction$156,000modeled economic value
Risk-adjusted loss reduction$16,250modeled expected-loss change
Net modeled value$109,00087.2% modeled ROI
Cashable savings$0 assumed
Cash or budget reduction must be confirmed separately by Finance. Capacity released is not automatically a saving.
Calculation and caveats
Capacity = initiatives × baseline hours × improvement × hourly cost × confidence. Delay = accelerated initiatives × weeks × weekly value × confidence. Risk = annual exposure × modeled reduction × confidence. Net value subtracts annual platform cost. Avoided cost, redirected spend, realized benefits, and cashable savings require separate evidence.
Software delivery performance
Five DORA metrics.
No context-free scorecards.
Measure applications or services over time. Improve the system; do not rank unlike teams.
Change lead time
Commit to successful production deployment.
Deployment frequency
Deployments per period or time between deployments.
Failed deployment recovery time
Time to recover from a failed deployment requiring intervention.
Change fail rate
Deployments requiring immediate intervention.
Deployment rework rate
Unplanned deployments resulting from a production incident.
Product horizons
Earn trust before autonomy.
- 01FOUNDATION v0.1
Shared product contract
Operating model, Flight Deck, brand, architecture, metrics, site, and validation.
- 02WORKFLOW
Durable TARMAC spine
Persistent evidence, findings, decisions, exceptions, audit, and production feedback.
- 03GOVERNANCE
Pilot-ready trust
Identity, scoped authorization, privacy, retention, policy, and operations.
- 04AUTOMATION
Connected evidence
Verified adapters, reconciliation, provenance, freshness, and telemetry.
- 05INTELLIGENCE
Governed assistance
Evaluated, cited summaries and recommendations with human authority.
- 06ECOSYSTEM
Extension contracts
Templates and integrations after ownership, licensing, trust, and product fit are resolved.
Foundation v0.1.0
The runway is clear.
The decisions are visible.
Explore the reference implementation, challenge the operating model, and help make enterprise delivery more measurable and accountable.
OPEN DECISION OD-001
Ownership and license remain unresolved.
The repository is currently All Rights Reserved and must not be represented as open source until the owner makes an explicit, informed decision.
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